Friends,
We are actively looking for Kansas City-area instructors to teach first-year composition, literature, and professional & technical writing classes at Park University. We are a small, private, open-enrollment liberal arts university just a few minutes northwest of downtown KC. Here are links to apply:
- Adjunct Instructor: Professional and Technical Writing
- Adjunct Instructor: English Literature
- Adjunct Instructor: First-Year Writing
While we are pushing for a full-time hire in the future, for now we work hard to give our adjunct instructors the best experience we can when it comes to things like scheduling around other jobs and ensuring each instructor consistently gets the number of sections they want (up to 3 per semester). As most of us are former contingent faculty members ourselves, my colleagues and I take seriously our roles as advocates for those who teach in our program. Writing-focused courses are capped at 18 students.
Our campus uses Canvas, and we have dedicated office space, printing services, and free parking passes with unlimited access to all faculty lots, including right in front of Copley-Thaw Hall, where most English classes are held. Park offers significant professional development opportunities through our Transformative Teaching and Learning Center (including training, badges, and paid fellowships), and I even recently collaborated with one of our instructors on research that will be published soon in Quarterly Review of Distance Education. We have department get-togethers twice a year, to which all instructors are invited.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me at david.grover.
Thanks!
David
Stephen David Grover, PhD
Associate Professor of English
Mary Barlow Endowed Professor of English Language & Literature
Program Coordinator of First-Year Writing
Park University | Copley-Thaw 306
Department of English and Interdisciplinary Studies